Issue - meetings

Agreed that the particular the concerns put forward by Aspire about  housing issues being faced  by care leavers and young parents who are being given poor quality housing are taken forward. It was agreed to Invite Denise Gandy to the next meeting with Aspire  in December. The Head of Children in Care  was aware of the issues  being faced by care leavers and  there was ongoing work with housing to procure  a better quality standard of semi independent accommodation . Getting better quality housing for  young care leavers that are parents  was a priority and a meeting was booked with Legal services and Housing  to look at how the issues for young parents can be addressed . The Committee were assured that  there was a co-operative relationship with Housing. There was also report due to the next CPAC meeting on the 19^th  December on the Housing  of care leavers  which would  provide information in response to Committee Member’s concerns.